I do have questions also related to racial profiling and the Justice Department's exemptions of the CBP for racial profiling.

I believe that ultimately we need to pass comprehensive immigration reform to deal with these issues in a comprehensive way.

How is a 10-year-old going to know that?

So we are definitely the tip of the spear, so to speak, when it comes to border control.

Earth is still the most important planet in our solar system, and to my knowledge, is the only one that humans are actually going to be able to live on.

This is certainly an issue that is very important to our State and she has done very important work on it.

we will be heading to Central America in a couple weeks and have an opportunity to see some of these conditions firsthand

Right. Thank you. We have a vote.

Does the fact that you have an ice bridge now through miles and miles of border--do you need additional assets for that?

Hopefully we can get some additional policy solutions where we work together from the Federal perspective.

bravo, Senator Peters, get us the tools we need from an Earth science perspective, we would appreciate it.

So hopefully in the future we will be able to see the program grow along the Northern Border, because we certainly recognize that there is a significant problem with smuggling.

no matter who you are, no matter where you live, you should have access to quality, first-class health care.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you to our panelists for today's fascinating discussion and certainly one that we have to continue to work on, for those of us, all of us, who represent rural areas in our states.

I have many constituents, as you can imagine, given the large size of our community in Michigan, that are very passionate about this.

Could you give me an update, please, on where we stand on that and how you look to proceed?

I appreciate that. But it is a very important task that you undertake, particularly from a public policy standpoint.

I am particularly concerned, as they are, with homeless veterans who may be out there, who have the ability and certainly the right to access benefits, but may not be aware of it.

I sent a letter to you earlier this year with a couple of my colleagues talking about that issue and the fact that that classification is not part of the Census.

Well, that is good to hear. I appreciate that.

Well, I would appreciate that, and if you could inform our office about that, I would appreciate that.

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